Question

The Saunders Investment Bank has the following financing outstanding.

  

Debt:	58,000 bonds with a coupon rate of 5.4 percent and a current price quote of 106.7; the bonds have 13 years to maturity and a par value of $1,000. 18,500 zero coupon bonds with a price quote of 21.2, 29 years until maturity, and a par value of $10,000. Both bonds have semiannual compounding.
Preferred stock:	153,000 shares of 3.1 percent preferred stock with a current price of $86 and a par value of $100.
Common stock:	2,260,000 shares of common stock; the current price is $90 and the beta of the stock is 1.10.
Market:	The corporate tax rate is 23 percent, the market risk premium is 7.4 percent, and the risk-free rate is 3.3 percent.

  

What is the WACC for the company? (Do not round intermediate calculations and enter your answer as a percent rounded to 2 decimal places, e.g., 32.16.)

Answer 1

We can calculate the Weighted Average Cost of Capital in the Excel Sheet as follows:

Formulas used in the excel sheet are:

So, the WACC comes out to be 8.6955%.